Julbo’s Fury Prescription Sunglasses reviewed

Julbo’s prescription sunglasses: how it works, how long it takes to make them, and the inherent limitations.

Julbo Fury Prescription Sunglasses
(Image credit: Tyler Boucher)
Cycling Weekly Verdict

Good sunglasses disappear on your face comfortably, while ill-fitting ones seem to make everything else worse. The Julbo Fury glasses offer impressively light weight, excellent optics and a very well-executed prescription insert. They could be more adjustable to fit a wider range of faces, however.

Reasons to buy
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    Incredible optics

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    Good venting

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    They look cool

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    Light weight

Reasons to avoid
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    -Lack of adjustability

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    Cost

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Earlier this year I wrote about how hard it is to find good prescription cycling glasses. Specifically, I wished for a company that designs performance glasses for prescription lenses from the ground up. While I have yet to encounter this exact scenario, I have since made an effort to seek out high-quality prescription glasses to test out.

One of these is the French company Julbo, headquartered in the Jura region near the Swiss border, which has developed a proprietary prescription system that uses a “baked-in prescription insert that is cohesive with the lens.” The company is best known for its climbing and mountaineering products, but also has a full range of cycling glasses and sponsors the Groupama-FDJ WorldTour team as well as several World Cup XC athletes.

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